THE EXTENT of the woes for bulk handler GrainCorp due to the east coast drought is clear in the company’s harvest update statistics.

As of Wednesday, with harvest all but wrapped up in NSW and Queensland and with only the Western District in Victoria yet to have the bulk of its grain hit the bin, GrainCorp’s total receivals were just 12.2 per cent of the bin-bursting 2016-17 harvest.

This season GrainCorp has received 1.84 million tonnes into its network, compared to 15m tonnes in 2016-17 when Australia broke its record for most winter crop produced.

Of the meagre deliveries, Victoria, traditionally a relative minnow in terms of total tonnage in comparison to NSW, has contributed well over 50pc of the deliveries, with 1.13m tonnes.

Rain through Victoria in mid-December caused substantial delays, however most areas were wrapped up by the start of 2019.